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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Video: AirVenture Organizers, Vendors Pleased with Crowds - WBAY | There was some question coming into AirVenture this year whether crowds would be as big as years past because there wouldn't be any current military planes performing or on display. But AirVenture 2013 has proven to be a solid event. A look at the ...

John Monnett Honored With Freedom of Flight Award - News from EAA AirVenture Oshkosh | July 31, 2013 - Sonex President John Monnett joined the elite list of recipients of EAA's Freedom of Flight Award, presented to him at the annual membership meeting Wednesday. The award is the organization's highest honor, bestowed annually to an individual whose contributions to aviation closely mirror the integrity, entrepreneurship, and innovative activities of EAA members....

Amelia Earhart's Namesake Plans World Trip By Gary Flick | July 31, 2013 - On Wednesday morning at Phillips 66 Plaza, Amelia Rose Earhart announced that she and copilot Patrick Carter plan to embark on an adventure around the world next June. The duo will be flying a Pilatus PC-12 NG, and Pilatus, Jeppesen, and Denver's Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum will be supporting the trek....

Five Questions with Scott Walker · eaavideo.org | Wisconsin's Gov. Scott Walker came to AirVenture Wednesday for a visit and a meeting with EAA's Chairman Jack Pelton. In Five Questions with EAA's John Nicholson the governor was clear about where he stands on the FAA fee assessment.

Five Questions with Sean D Tucker · eaavideo.org | It would be hard to imagine an AirVenture without Sean D. Tucker and his spectacular air show act. Sean is almost constantly in motion but stopped long enough to answer Five Questions for EAA's John Nicholson.

Oshkosh Tower Chief Bids Farewell By Joseph E. (Jeb) Burnside | July 31, 2013 - After 10 years serving as the Oshkosh tower chief during AirVenture, this is Wanda Adelman's last show. The 32-year FAA veteran is retiring later this year, after an agency career born in the aftermath of the 1981 PATCO strike, in which more than 11,000 controllers were fired....

Teen circling the globe stops at EAA - Fox11online.com | GREENVILLE - An Australian teenager is in the middle of a solo flight around the world. And he's bringing his world record attempt to AirVenture. 19-year-old Ryan Campbell is trying to become the youngest pilot to ever circle the globe alone and hoping to inspire other teens to take flight in the process...

Teen Solos in Plane He Helped Build - News from EAA AirVenture Oshkosh | July 31, 2013 - As a preschooler, Austin Malcomb recalls sitting on a pillow in the copilot seat of his grandfather's 172, just so he could reach the controls and see over the dashboard....

Legendary Snowbirds will fly above Nanaimo tonight - Nanaimo Daily News | Up above Nanaimo's inner harbour at 6 p.m. tonight, spectators will get a glimpse of daring acrobatics from Canada's beloved air demonstration squadron. But Tuesday afternoon, kids and their parents got a closer glimpse of the iconic red and white jets and the pilots who fly them. The Snowbirds landed at Nanaimo Airport Tuesday afternoon for meet-and-greet session with members of C.H.I.L.D., a foundation set up to help children with painful, incurable intestinal and liver problems....

Air Fair brings the past to Big Bear Valley - Big Bear Grizzly| The Big Bear Airport staff hope to give Big Bear Valley residents and visitors a tour of aviation history from 1903 to the present. The Big Bear Air Fair is set for the end of August. The airport will play host to dozens of planes, cars, vendors and hundreds of people when the gates open for the 16th Big Bear Air Fair Aug. 24. The public is allowed to enter the airport at 7 a.m. to browse the vendors, but the opening ceremony doesn’t begin until 9 a.m. Admission to the Air Fair, which runs until 4 p.m., is $2.

Fly-a-Thon and Mini Air Show set for Aug. 31 - Houston Chronicle | Fort Bend Radio Control Airplane Club will hold Fly-a-Thon and Mini Air Show from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 31, at the club's air field in Rosenberg. Over the years, this event has raised thousands of dollars to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association (Jerrys Kids). The public is invited to see radio-controlled model airplanes small and large, including aircraft up to 50 percent of the size of a full-scale aircraft, according to a club release...

warm, bleached by the just risen sun, the morning air over Santa Ana seemed ripe for slicing. A man in a black suit and tie stood silently for a while, inhaling that ripeness, savoring the nerve-jangle of his expectations while surveying the landscape around him: in the distance, a billiard table-flat expanse of bean and beet fields flanked to the north by some mountains; closer in, a few roughshod plane hangars and a gray-blue landing strip; and, at the end of that landing strip, glimmering in the sunlight like beaten silver, a single-seat, single-engine airplane...

Local Pilot Helps Young People Take Flight - SurfKY News WEBSTER COUNTY, Ky. (7/31/13) - An area pilot has now given more than 100 young people free demonstration airplane rides as part of the Experimental Aircraft Association’s Young Eagles program, which is introducing a new generation to the world of flight. Michael Howard of Slaughters is one of more than 45,000 pilots from around the world who have donated their time and aircraft to the effort.